The Diocese of Providence is inviting the community to a farewell Mass for Archbishop Richard Henning, who will be leaving ...

The Chinese government’s persecution of the Chinese Catholic Church is targeted against the hierarchs who resist Chinese ...

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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse, marking the largest settlement of its kind with a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.

In a move which tightens a previous 2004 surrogacy ban, Italy has officially banned its citizens from seeking surrogates ...

In a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Pope Francis ...

The decentralization of certain aspects of the Catholic Church's governance, as proposed in the Synod of Bishops on ...

After the pope’s visit to Luxembourg and Belgium in late September, 524 people have signed a declaration published Oct. 16 in ...

The specific issue of the doctrinal competence of bishops’ conferences, and what that might look like concretely, “got a lot ...

An Italian publisher announced the global release in January of "Hope," a book it described as Pope Francis' autobiography, ...

Italian lawmakers passed a law on Wednesday making it illegal for couples to travel to the United States and other countries ...

Pope Francis called on divided Christians to overcome their doctrinal differences and walk together in love, expressing hope ...